If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

A great man is made so for others.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief

A single thought can shift your entire world.

In the world of old memories, there's no room for visitors

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

I defend myself by improving myself.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching his interviews.